From the semester to the world: Scholas honors the life and message of Pope Francis

Sebastian Samson Ferrari – Vatican City

The Scholas Pontifical Foundation, which was created by Pope Francis as a global educational space, was rejected with deep passion and gratitude to the back of the Argentine, who they called not only his founder, but “his father, teacher and poet.” message It was published by the organization After his death, he not only honors his legacy, but also picks up the most intimate essence of the man behind the Pope.

“Francisco, the beloved of our beloved, the teacher and the poet died,” begins the emotional text published by Scholas, and represents a different tone from an institutional statement. It is a farewell full of rapprochement, which indicates more farewell to the family than his departure from the world leader. The Foundation remembers his last fans with the Pope in Rome, when he asked him an Indonesian character: “Who is Scholas?” His answer was, the believer in his direct and simple style: “For everyone … Scholas is a gift for the youth of the world.”

The word “gift”, according to the text, becomes the best summary of the Francisco heritage: “Scholas is its gift. The gift Francisco gives it to the world.” This gift, as they keep, is not only an institution. It is a vital education: that life itself is a gift, not an understanding or control, but thanks, participation and celebration.

In the intimate story of his latest gesture, Scholas draws a deep human and spiritual image of the Pope. One of those moments was from the hospital balcony, after a dangerous relapse. While waiting for the world with an official statement, Francisco looked at a woman between the crowd and said: “I see a woman with yellow flowers … courage.” This simple scene – which would have passed without anyone noticing – was revelation. “The truth lives in the small … in this little beauty that saves the world,” they are reflected from Scholas.

A meeting by Pope Francis with young people from Scholas occurred during his Apostolic trip to Indonesia on September 4, 2024. (Vatican Media)

His last gesture was to take off the white cassock, the papal investment code, and leave between people who wear civilian clothes. A silent but deep gesture: “He decided to remove the symbol to show the man … I knew he was playing the last minutes, and he did not want to die from potatoes: preferred to die naked, he would really die.”

The text is crowned strongly for his death: not like end, but as a plant. “He died while the seed dies, opened life and fruit.” In his last days, they claim that Francisco did not support his role as a priest or potato, but in the deepest essence: his master and poet. “His death was a poem … His last words were full of silence, like the Hamous …”

Scholas closes his farewell to its commitment to continuing to walk “between the wound and the promise”, which is guided by the silent teachings of Francisco, which is still alive in gestures, in listening and celebrating life. “Today, as a community of Scholas … in an attempt to respond to his call and form this new life that his death gave.”

The death of Jorge Mario Bergolio, the Pope of the Lawsh, Dialogue and tenderness, was a loss for the church and the passage. But for Scholas, it is not the end of the story, but the birth of a new stage: those that seek to flourish the legacy of the man who knew how to look with the eyes of the soul.

Schools that occur: one local, not preserved local crisis

Schelast Scholas was born in 2001 amid the deep political, economic and social crisis of Argentina. Looking at this scenario, Bishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergolio (Pope Francis), promoted an educational project that sought to listen and bring young people from various facts beyond the ecclesiastical field. Thus, the first “air schools” and “sister schools” appeared, with the aim of turning social pain into the participation of citizens and commitment.

Over time, this local project has become an international movement. Indeed, as the Pope, Francisco Scholas supported a educational and cultural response to global crises, which enhances dialogue, inserting the environment and caring for it.

May 17, 2022 Chirographer has been announced Pope Francis ordered the change of the Scholas Pontifical Foundation to A. The Special Society for International FaithfulAccording to Canons 298-311 and 321-329, it is recognized as a special legal entity in the ecclesiastical system, as shown in Canon 322, Paragraph 1.

Through its international work, the movement formed a global network of schools that work together to give young people and become active change factors in their societies. The entity also provides a series of programs and initiatives, including the creation of classroom without walls, teachers training, and exchanges between cultures and educational resources online, through which they generate comprehensive and directed education towards peacebuilding.

Due to the special relationship between the Roman and the Organizing ink, they found themselves on multiple occasions during Pontificate, as part of the events that promote them, usually with young people. The last case happened on February 5, 2025, At the end of the plenary session in the semester Pablo VIWhen they received the Pope to close the meeting between religions and cultures Meaning meets us. It was a short space that the participants in this activity gave him a speech and a heavy shirt that he signed.

Among other opportunities, it is impregnated in the heart of everyone The opening of the Schonestes movement At the Youth House “Grha Pemuda” in Yakarta as part of the Pope’s Apostolic Journey to Indonesia on September 4, 2024, which was the longest long international trip in Pontvie.

Pope Francis meeting with Scholas occurred during his Apostolic trip to Indonesia on September 4, 2024.